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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 584
October 24, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives
Petersen
,
Behnke
,
Dittrich
,
Doyle
,
Kaufert
,
Knodl
,
Kurtz
,
O'Connor
,
Rodriguez
,
Tucker
,
Wichgers
and
Swearingen
, cosponsored by Senators
Cabral-Guevara
,
Bradley
and
Jacque
. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
AB584,1,4
1
An Act
to amend
66.0435 (3) (c) 1. (intro.), 70.17 (3), 79.0965 (title) and
2
79.0965 (3);
to create
70.11 (49), 79.0965 (1m), 79.0965 (2m) and 79.0965 (5)
3
of the statutes;
relating to:
a property tax exemption for prefabricated
4
recreational structures.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill creates a property tax exemption for prefabricated structures originally designed to be towed by a motor vehicle and used primarily as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal purposes, including accessory decks, sheds, and porches. To claim the exemption, the prefabricated structures must be located in a licensed campground on land that is not owned by the owner of the structures.
The bill also requires the Department of Administration to make aid payments to taxing jurisdictions to compensate them for the loss of property tax revenue due to the property tax exemption for prefabricated structures described above. Under current law, DOA makes payments to taxing jurisdictions to compensate them for the loss of property tax revenue due to the repeal of the personal property tax.
Because this bill relates to an exemption from state or local taxes, it may be referred to the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions for a report to be printed as an appendix to the bill.
For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB584,1
1
Section
1
.
66.0435 (3) (c) 1. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB584,2,9
2
66.0435
(3)
(c) 1. (intro.) In addition to the license fee provided in pars. (a) and
3
(b), each licensing authority shall collect from each unit occupying space or lots in a
4
community in the licensing authority, except from recreational mobile homes as
5
provided under par. (cm),
from prefabricated structures described under s. 70.11
6
(49),
from manufactured and mobile homes that constitute improvements to real
7
property, from recreational vehicles as defined in s. 340.01 (48r), and from camping
8
trailers as defined in s. 340.01 (6m), a monthly municipal permit fee computed as
9
follows:
AB584,2
10
Section
2
.
70.11 (49) of the statutes is created to read:
AB584,2,16
11
70.11
(49)
Recreational prefabricated structures
. Any prefabricated
12
structure originally designed to be towed upon a highway by a motor vehicle and
13
used primarily as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or
14
seasonal purposes, including accessory decks, sheds, and porches, if such
15
prefabricated structures are located in a licensed campground under s. 97.67 upon
16
land that is not owned by the owner of such prefabricated structures.
AB584,3
17
Section
3
.
70.17 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB584,3,15
18
70.17
(3)
Beginning with the property tax assessments as of January 1, 2024,
19
manufactured and mobile homes, not otherwise exempt from taxation under s.
20
66.0435 (3)
or 70.11 (49)
, buildings, improvements, and fixtures on leased lands,
1
buildings, improvements, and fixtures on exempt lands, buildings, improvements,
2
and fixtures on forest croplands, and buildings, improvements, and fixtures on
3
managed forest lands shall be assessed as real property. If buildings,
4
improvements, and fixtures, but not the underlying land, are leased to a person
5
other than the landowner or if the buildings, improvements, and fixtures are owned
6
by a person other than the landowner, the assessor may create a separate tax parcel
7
for the buildings, improvements, and fixtures and assess the buildings,
8
improvements, and fixtures as real property to the owner of the buildings,
9
improvements, and fixtures. The assessor may also create a tax parcel, as provided
10
under s. 70.27, for buildings, improvements, and fixtures on exempt lands,
11
buildings, improvements, and fixtures on forest croplands, and buildings,
12
improvements, and fixtures on managed forest lands and assess the buildings,
13
improvements, and fixtures as real property to the owner of the buildings,
14
improvements, and fixtures. For purposes of this subsection, “buildings,
15
improvements, and fixtures” does not include any property defined in s. 70.04.
AB584,4
16
Section
4
.
79.0965 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB584,3,17
17
79.0965
(title)
State aid; repeal of personal property tax
; exemptions
.
AB584,5
18
Section
5
.
79.0965 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB584,3,22
19
79.0965
(1m)
Beginning in 2027, the department of administration shall pay
20
to each taxing jurisdiction, as defined in s. 79.095 (1) (c), an amount equal to the
21
property taxes levied on property described under s. 70.11 (49) for the property tax
22
assessments as of January 1, 2025.
AB584,6
23
Section
6
.
79.0965 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB584,4,4
24
79.0965
(2m)
Each municipality shall report to the department of revenue, in
1
the time and manner determined by the department, the amount of the property
2
taxes levied on property described under s. 70.11 (49) for the property tax
3
assessments as of January 1, 2025, on behalf of the municipality and on behalf of
4
other taxing jurisdictions.
AB584,7
5
Section
7
.
79.0965 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB584,4,12
6
79.0965
(3)
Each taxing jurisdiction shall attribute to each tax incremental
7
district within the taxing jurisdiction the district’s proportionate share of the
8
amount the taxing jurisdiction receives under
sub.
subs.
(1)
and (1m)
. The amount
9
that would have been paid to a tax incremental district under this subsection shall
10
be distributed to the municipality and applicable taxing jurisdictions in the year
11
following the termination of the tax incremental district and in each year
12
thereafter.
AB584,8
13
Section
8
.
79.0965 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
AB584,4,17
14
79.0965
(5)
The department of revenue shall certify the amount of the
15
payment due each taxing jurisdiction under sub. (1m) to the department of
16
administration, and the department of administration shall make the payment on
17
or before the first Monday in July.
AB584,9337
18
Section
9337
. Initial applicability; Revenue.
AB584,4,20
19
(
1
)
Recreational prefabricated structures.
The treatment of s. 70.11
20
(49) first applies to the property tax assessments as of January 1, 2026.
AB584,4,21
21
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